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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
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Also Known As Mu Tan • Zha Liangzheng
Born April 5, 1918 • Tianjin • China
Died February 26, 1977 (aged 58) • Tianjin • China
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Guo Moruo
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Chinese scholar
Baren
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Ba Jin
Chinese author
Qian Zhongshu
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Wu Cheng’en
Chinese author
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
Chinese author
Bian Zhilin
Chinese poet and translator
Li Shangyin
Chinese poet
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet
Anne Carson
Anne Carson
Canadian poet
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet
Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage
British poet, playwright, and novelist
Cesare Pavese
Italian author
H.D.
H.D.
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Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
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Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines